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Racial hatred towards Muslims had hit a new high when two planes hijacked by Muslim youths radicalised by Osama Bin Laden hit the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The feeling then was that it couldn't get worse, but it did, as was witnessed by the recent terror attacks across Europe.

And then, in the run-up to the 15th anniversary of the attacks that became known across the world as just "9/11", someone tried to fan that hatred by asking people to "imagine a world without Muslims". The post on social networking platform Tumblr has since gone viral, but for all the right reasons.

It has gone viral because someone — more specifically, a Tumblr user named "whatpath" — has taken the time and shown his/her patience to collate a series of things the world would not have had without Muslims. Read their entire unedited reply here:

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.
It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.
It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.
It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.
It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V's castle.
It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.
It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey
It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.
It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.

The list goes on...........

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Anders Breivik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!

World Without Muslims would be peaceful and hormonious....
I'm forced to say this because all the unrest which is spreaded in the world is because of the ignorant Muslims.I doesn't mean to say that a world without 'All' the muslims.Just those people who are destroying the world with their barbaric Jihadi Agenda